Bowick, 46,
has served as an assistant general counsel for the Los AngelesUnifiedSchool District since 2001.

Before
then, Bowick served as a deputy city attorney for the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco.

She
previously served as a litigation associate for Barrack, Rodos & Bacine,
Berman & Clark, and Mills & Schroeder.

A graduate
of Howard University School of Law and UCLA, Bowick fills the vacancy created
by the resignation of Judge Joe W. Hilberman and is registered
decline-to-state.

Superior Court
Commissioner

Hall, 58,
was elected by the judges of the court as a commissioner in 2007. Prior to
that, he served as head deputy alternate public defender for the Los Angeles
County Alternate Public Defenderís Office.

He spent 24
years as a deputy public defender after earning degrees from LoyolaLawSchool and USC. Hall was
admitted to the State bar in 1976.

A Democrat,
Hall fills a vacancy created by the conversion of a court commissioner position
in September 2008.

Before
Pacheco, 60, became a Superior Court commissioner in 2001 he spent 10 years as
the head of a law firm within the Childrenís LawCenter.

He served
the 10 years prior to that as a deputy public defender for the Orange County
Public Defenderís Office.

Associate Attorney

From 1978
to 1981, Pacheco was an associate attorney for Newman, Chrisman and Faith after
graduating from HastingsLawSchool and U.C. Riverside.

†Pacheco, a
Democrat, fills the vacancy created by the conversion of a court commissioner
position in September 2008. He was admitted to the State Bar in 1978.

Korn, 44,
of Los
Angeles,
has served as a deputy district attorney since 1990. She earned her law degree
from the HastingsLawSchool and her undergraduate
degree from U.C. Santa Barbara before being admitted to practice in 1990.

She is a
Democrat and fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Rodney G.
Forneret, since deceased.

Fellow
deputy district attorney Rosales, 43, has been with the office since 1995 and
previously served as a deputy attorney general for the California Attorney
Generalís Office from 1992 to 1995.

Rosales, a
Republican, earned both her law and undergraduate degrees from UCLA and fills
the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Robert Schnider.

She was
admitted to the State Bar in 1992.

Hofer, 56,
has served as a partner for the Los Angeles-based antitrust and complex
litigation firm of Blecher & Collins since 1986.

Prior to
that, he was an assistant U.S.
attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice from 1983 to 1986.

He was a
litigation associate for BryanCave from 1982 to 1983, and
spent a year prior to that at Blecher Collins & Hoecker. From 1978 until
1980 Hofer was a member of Ball Hunt Hart Brown & Baerwitz.

A
Republican, Hofer earned his law degree from USC and his undergraduate degree
from UCLA. He was admitted to the State Bar in 1979 and fills the vacancy
created by the retirement of Judge Darlene E. Schempp.

Moloney,
60, a senior partner at Gilbert Kelly Crowley & Jennett, joined the
insurance and business litigation firm as an associate in 1975.

A graduate
of Santa
ClaraLawSchool and Santa ClaraUniversity, Moloney was admitted
to the State Bar in 1975.

He is a
Republican and fills the vacancy created by the conversion of a court
commissioner position in November 2008.

Tanaka, 46,
joined the Office of County Counsel in 2006. Prior to that, he spent five years
as a deputy alternate public defender and one year as a deputy public defender.

From 1991
to 2000, Tanaka was an associate for Astor & Phillips.

He earned
both his law and undergraduate degrees from WesternStateUniversity and was admitted to the State Bar in 1991.

A
Republican, Tanaka fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Kenneth
A. Black.

In other
news, the governor announced the appointments of Deputy Attorney General
Deborah J. Chuang and Assistant Orange County District Attorney Walter P.
Schwarm to the Orange Superior Court bench.

Schwarzenegger
also appointed San Bernardino Chief Deputy Public Defender Debra Harris to a
judgeship in the San Bernardino Superior Court.